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[Help] Hacking into Windows 2000 SP4

Hi guys, first of all I would like to say that I'm new to Linux and would appreciate any help you can offer me.

Currently I'm involved in a school project which requires me to remotely hack a Windows 2000 SP4 server on the same LAN to acquire an account with administrative rights. I have tried both Backtrack and Cain & Abel but so far I've only managed to figure out the local IP of the server and ports that are open on the server (25 80 135 139 443 445 1000 1026 1027 1028 6129). How should I proceed from there? Please help me. Thank you.

Re: [Help] Hacking into Windows 2000 SP4

Well theres lots of things you could do, theres a veritable smorgasbord of attacky goodness on those ports you mentioned, but if you're new to this then the next thing Id suggest would be to run a vulnerability scanner against the system. OpenVAS, Nessus, Nexpose, etc. Run a nmap scan of the system and do service enumeration and run the scripts as well.

Capitalisation is important. It's the difference between "Helping your brother Jack off a horse" and "Helping your brother jack off a horse".

Re: [Help] Hacking into Windows 2000 SP4

Well you can always look into using Sysinternals suite for things. For example psexec suite. I use that to run my batch files remotely for forensic data gathering. With that I can get everything from Netstat information to a full memory image of the system sent to a LAN location.

Re: [Help] Hacking into Windows 2000 SP4

Originally Posted by Optovisc

Hi guys, first of all I would like to say that I'm new to Linux and would appreciate any help you can offer me.

Currently I'm involved in a school project which requires me to remotely hack a Windows 2000 SP4 server on the same LAN to acquire an account with administrative rights. I have tried both Backtrack and Cain & Abel but so far I've only managed to figure out the local IP of the server and ports that are open on the server (25 80 135 139 443 445 1000 1026 1027 1028 6129). How should I proceed from there? Please help me. Thank you.

I think your school is setting you up for failure. Not that I believe any of this story but, I mean some teacher said "here is a win2k sp4 box. hack it" Without teaching or giving methods, tools, techniques or procedures to do so.
Horrible. I hope that you ask for your money back, and or transfer because at this rate you are wasting your time.

Re: [Help] Hacking into Windows 2000 SP4

I too must agree with Archangel.Amael, clutch and shamwave (and to the rest who respond to this thread) . I am currently in school pursuing my degree in Network Security and haven't been asked to hack into anything nor would I look upon the class as anything worthwhile if I was told to do so without at least a solid understanding of operating systems, basic networking topology, study on the tools used for network penetration, etc. I would almost find it downright dangerous as a matter of fact.

Furthermore, I would expect help in doing a penetration test from my teacher and/or other peers around me. Granted, every school teaches in a different way, but I can honestly say that I don't know anybody that has gone to school and was told "Here's X machine on a lan, go attack it" If you were in a Network Security (or similar class) you should have already received the knowledge on what to look for and how to go about testing systems. If this is what you are learning in school, I seriously don't expect you to advance very far.